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Coming off of two murders last weekend, this week has been fairly quiet when it comes to crime. And today Belize City literally dodged a bullet–actually several bullets–as an incident that could have ended with multiple fatalities…didn’t. Jacqueline Woods, Reports Shootings in the city, even in broad daylight, are not unusual, but what has Belize […]
Written on October 1, 2004 | Posted in
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It was one of the biggest international drug busts of the year: twenty-six thousand pounds of cocaine. And the narcotics were found buried beneath a load of fish and ice on a Belize flagged vessel. The fishing boat in question, the San Jose, was boarded on September twenty-second by U.S. coast guard personnel operating off […]
Written on September 28, 2004 | Posted in
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Tempers seem to be short in Belize these days as incidents which in years gone by might have been settled with a good cussing or at most a fistfight, are now resolved with finality by a gun, knife or machete. Two men lost their lives this weekend, in what are believed to be such scenarios: […]
Written on September 27, 2004 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, around twenty-four hours earlier in Seine Bight Village in the Stann Creek District, another Belizean, forty-eight year old Roderick White, was about to have his life cut short. According to police, they found White unconscious on the floor of his apartment with what appeared to be cut wounds to the forehead and abdomen. He […]
Written on September 27, 2004 | Posted in
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In crime news, law enforcement authorities have reported at least partial success in their efforts to maintain law and order and are also offering some advice to the public. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This is the car Belize City police believe was used as the get away vehicle in a robbery that occurred at a business […]
Written on September 24, 2004 | Posted in
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In a story, we ran in yesterday’s newscast we incorrectly reported that no suspects were ever apprehended in the robbery of the Belize Bank branch in Orange Walk in March. In fact seven people are currently before the Orange Walk magistrate’s court, accused of holding up the bank. About a week after the March second […]
Written on September 24, 2004 | Posted in
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Corozal police are tonight slapping themselves on the back after a tip led to the discovery of an arsenal of weapons and ammunition. According to authorities, responding to information from an anonymous caller, members of the Special Branch went to a bushy area near San Victor Village and under a fallen tree, discovered several wrapped […]
Written on September 23, 2004 | Posted in
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Cops in Cayo are tonight investigating what caused a chopping incident between one woman’s brother and her husband. Reports are that at around nine thirty on Wednesday morning thirty year old Rigoberto Villanueva was walking in Georgeville Village with his common-law-wife when her brother approached them and started chopping him with a machete. The weapon […]
Written on September 23, 2004 | Posted in
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A Belizean fugitive will be returned home this week after being apprehended in the United States. According to the US Embassy in Belize, Gouldburne Glenford Adolphus was arrested in the United States on charges relating to possession of a fraudulent U.S. birth certificate. A check with law enforcement authorities in Belize revealed he is wanted […]
Written on September 20, 2004 | Posted in
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The remains of a homeless man were discovered on Saturday on top of a building in the Newtown Barracks. The body, which was badly decomposed, has been identified as sixty-seven year old George Atterstan Wright, who had been living on the third floor of the building with other homeless people. A post mortem revealed that […]
Written on September 20, 2004 | Posted in
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A seventeen-year-old youth has been detained following a stabbing incident Saturday night in Hopkins village, which sent two men, Clement Martinez and Jermaine Hendy to the hospital. Police say their investigations reveal Hendy was fighting with the seventeen year old when three other youths jumped into the fray attacking Hendy and then Martinez got involved […]
Written on September 20, 2004 | Posted in
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They’ve been used by police departments in England for over a century…but in Belize the science of fingerprinting has always taken a back seat to more easily obtained evidence like a suspect’s confession. But with defendants clamming up and witnesses too scared to testify, good old fashioned forensic science is about to make a comeback. […]
Written on September 16, 2004 | Posted in
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A shooting this morning near the village of Burrell Boom in the Belize District has left one man dead and the prime suspect armed and on the loose. According to police sometime around ten this morning, the silence of this quiet suburban neighbourhood was shattered by gunfire following an altercation between thirty-seven year old Dean […]
Written on September 15, 2004 | Posted in
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It has not been a good month for the Police Department. With seven murders in two weeks and more cops singled out for wrongdoing than valor, it’s difficult to see the results of improved training and reforms promised some time ago. And today the ugly side of law enforcement was exposed once again as two […]
Written on September 14, 2004 | Posted in
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In a correction to a story we ran on Monday, today twenty-five year old Dennis Belgrave called our newsroom to say he was not in the company of Nehru Smith and Clive Flowers when both men were shot and killed on Saturday night. Belgrave says he was riding home on his bicycle when upon reaching […]
Written on September 14, 2004 | Posted in
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Long holiday weekends in Belize are no strangers to deadly violence and the one we just experienced was no exception. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports on a double homicide in Belize City that police are still trying to sort out. G. Michael Reid, Police Press Officer ?There is concern; in particular it seems that people […]
Written on September 13, 2004 | Posted in
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It is not being classified as a murder, but what do you call it when a man gets drunk, steals a car, knocks down a pedestrian and drives away, leaving his victim to die. That’s pretty much what happened on Saturday night in Orange Walk. The dead man is seventy year old Dionicio Villar, of […]
Written on September 13, 2004 | Posted in
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Late Friday night shots rang out in Belize City and unlike Sunday morning’s victims, these two men are still among us, the difference between life and death being only a few inches. One of the wounded was philosophical about his brush with death. Alex Myers, Shooting Victim ?It no make no sense to talk about […]
Written on September 13, 2004 | Posted in
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A pre-Tenth outing at a Hattieville night spot has left a twenty one year old villager hospitalized with gunshot wounds to his leg. And the off duty Belize Defence Force soldier says the irresponsible behaviour of the police is responsible for his injury. Arthur Danderson Junior says he was playing pool on Thursday night when […]
Written on September 13, 2004 | Posted in
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And while there may be independent witnesses who will be able to shed light on Thursday night’s incident in Hattieville, in Cayo, investigators of another alleged case of police brutality will have a more difficult time. Twenty-three year old Fernando Crawford, an escaped inmate of the Hattiveille Correctional Facility, was shot in both legs last […]
Written on September 13, 2004 | Posted in
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Today’s newscast, like many Monday editions, is heavy on weekend crime. But the phenomenon of what appears to be an increasingly violent society is felt in many ways. This morning News 5’s Patrick Jones got a preview of a new study that seeks to get behind the grim headlines. Patrick Jones, Reporting Every time there […]
Written on September 13, 2004 | Posted in
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It is one of Belize’s most industrious and prosperous communities. Situated on a series of hills in the Orange Walk District, tucked against the Mexican border, the village of Blue Creek first caught our attention almost twenty years ago when it built the nation’s first hydro-electric plant. That feat was followed by major investments in […]
Written on September 8, 2004 | Posted in
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A foul up at the Queen Street Police Station today allowed two accused murderers to escape…and while one, Basil Willis, was quickly captured, the other, Darrington Lauriano, remains at large. The two inmates, both on remand at Hattieville, were brought to the city for court hearings. At around one thirty this afternoon a check of […]
Written on September 8, 2004 | Posted in
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A convict on the run is back in police custody tonight after a face off with authorities in the Cayo district left him with bullets in both legs. According to San Ignacio police, around twelve thirty this afternoon, residents of Esperanza village called in to report a burglary in progress. The cops arrived just in […]
Written on September 7, 2004 | Posted in
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The President of Taiwan has come and gone, the government in Belmopan is busy trying to shore up the nation’s finances, and the Opposition is quietly planning its next move in the Social Security scandal. That has given the good citizens of Belize the chance to get back to what we do best: kill each […]
Written on September 6, 2004 | Posted in
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